Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thrown into reverse and the animals were credited with consciousness, introspective, free will, after the German school led by Wilhelm Max Wundt. First to throw brilliant new light on the problem was Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Son of a priest in a Russian village, he was early confronted with Spirit & Mind v. Matter. Long years in scientific study got him a doctor's degree at the age of 34. Six years later, 1890, he was appointed director of the physiology department of the Institute of Experimental Medicine at St. Petersburg (Leningrad). From then on, his path was undeviating, scrupulous, relentless...
...attention of His Holiness was not, however, directed entirely toward the actions of his U. S. servants. He spoke to 1,000 new members of the Catholic Youth Associations on the subject of athletic and other amusements, saying in heartfelt manner: "Amusements serve to refresh the spirit which otherwise would be too strained and unable to perform with satisfactory capacity its high noble functions...
Such conditions inspire possimism, but it seems that it is all the outcome of what the Germans would label Zeitgeist, the spirit of the times. The educator who would inspire the great mass of students now wallowing in the sloughs of scholastic hebetude is in most cases a voice declaiming in the wilderness, because the multiplicity and complexity of college life has sent such a terrific avalanche of courses and activities down upon the normal student that he can only fight blindly ahead and trust to get through the best way he can. As long as chaos is the prevalent...
Although these changes may be attributed largely to more fundamental causes than that of numerical growth. It will probably be admitted that the further restriction of numbers or the break-up of the college into smaller units would help reestablish the democratic spirit of the old Yale. Since it is advisable to cut the quota for admissions, the solution seems to lie in the reorganization of Yale College on the plan of the English universities on the basis of the old system of class distinctions, or by a scheme which combine both principles...
...little static in the news of his radio coup. No biographer has stepped forward to pen the life of the wizard. Of course, there are the columns of the press and they have done fairly well, but hurried reporters are not able to do justice to this subject. The spirit of the dead Horatio and the spirit of the living Michael clasp hands, regretfully, almost tearfully. Boswell without Johnson, Johnson without Boswell: fate was kind to Mr. Alger, and is kinder to Mr. Meehan; but it left a vulnerable spot, and for both the times are out of joint...